The University of Tennessee at Martin

A Virtual History


History of Campus Buildings

Name(s) of Building: Holt Humanities Building and Humanities Building

Dates of Construction: 1967-1968
Completion Date: 1968
Cost: $1,375,284
Brief History: The Holt Humanities Building was completed by the fall of 1968 to fill the drastic need for office and classroom space. The building consists of 65,072 square feet and was designed to have 31 classrooms, 90 offices, a large lecture hall, and psychology and foreign language laboratories. At present, most of the liberal arts programs are house in the structure, including the departments of History, Political Science, English, Modern Foreign Languages, Mathematics and Computer Science.
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